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Internet to Surpass 2 Billion Users This Year
Oct 20th
The total number of internet users will grow past the 2 billion mark before the end of 2010, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has reported.
Currently the world population is estimated to be 6.86 billion which means that around 30% of the population will be online next year. A further 226 million users will join the rest of us online this year, 162 million will come from developing countries which despite the fast growth still has a long way to go to catch up with the developed world.
At the end of 2010, 71% of the population in developed countries will be online, compared to only 21% of people in developing countries. Europe making up 65%, Americas 55%, Asia/Pacific 21.9%, leaving a mere 9.6% of the population online in Africa.
The ITU, United Nation’s agency for information and communication technologies, sees the introduction of broadband as the most important element in helping these developing countries “Broadband is the next tipping point, the next truly transformational technology. It can generate jobs, drive growth and productivity and underpin long-term economic competitiveness”, said ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure.
This numbers show why companies are investing in ecommerce web design solutions and ensuring their companies website design portrays them More >
404 Error pages for your Website Design & Ecommerce Web Design Projects
Oct 17th
Hitting a dead end page is pretty disappointing, you search, your find and you click eagerly expecting to see what your looking for. To be shown a basic 404 error is pretty frustrating after all your hard work.
HTTP – 404 Page Not Found Sorry, the page you were looking for cannot be found.
What Are Website Design 404 Page Errors Most clients will not understand what a 404 page is will assume your website is down, you not finished the website or you or no longer trading. We have started to implement on both our Website Design and Ecommerce Web Design projects specific 404 page designs to make this annoying little aspect a bit more fun, and to reassure / help your clients to find what they are looking for.
When Do Website Design 404 Page Errors Happen? A 404 page error will appear when a browser tries to access a page that no longer exists on your website. This can happen a few ways. If you are thinking of a Website Redesign for instance, you may have 400 pages listed on Google and if you move your website platform to say WordPress which allows you to integrate a blog and social media much More >
Accept Credit Card Payments on Mobile Devices
Oct 15th
In recent months, a few new mobile payment solutions have been introduced to allow mobiel payments from Ecommerce Web Designs.
In fact, when using one of the available services, retailers of any size — even a farmer’s market vendor, babysitter or upstart vegan donut maker operating out of a kiosk — can start selling their products to anyone with a credit card.
The three services profiled here — Square, Intuit GoPayment and PAYware Mobile — hail from experienced entrepreneurs and seasoned payment veterans, and each offers a slight variation on the same idea that you can accept payments from anyone, everywhere.
These variations, however, are significant depending on the type of business you run and the amount of transactions you plan to process. You can use the information below to help in the decision-making and merchant setup processes. Make sure to pay special attention to transaction fees, hardware costs and merchant restrictions or requirements.
Choosing the Right ServiceSquare: Square is a startup from Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame, which means you can expect the product to be attractive, and the service to be slick, consumer-friendly and receive regular improvements on an iterative basis. As a startup, Square lacks the powerhouse financial names attached to the More >
Are your Ecommerce Website Design Payment Systems compliant?
Oct 7th
What we need to know about ecommerce web design and PCI Compliance…
If you use a hosted payment gate (e.g. your customers leave your Ecommerce Web Design and enter their payment details onto a secure gateway such as WorldPay)… Nothing changes. All your PCI Compliancy is handled by the gateway.
If people enter card details directly onto your Ecommerce Web Design (Even if the actual payment is processed by a gateway) your website…
- Should not store unnecessary cardholder data
- Should be running a PA-DSS Compliant Payment Application
- Should host the site on a Dedicated Server enviroment with a Level 1 or 2 PCI Compliant Service Provider (with the Database and Application Server seperated). (Yes thats TWO servers!)
- Should carry out quarterly vulnerability scans of their server network
- Will need to complete SAQ-D because they are storing data (even though it’s for a short time in system memory). The SAQ-D is complicated and can cost a lot of time and money to complete!
Please note that at the time of writing this, Out of 600+ shopping cart systems out there, Only 60 are currently compliant.
This is a new enforcement by credit card companies and the banks where you can be charged up to £250,000 for every card that is used on More >
Ecommerce Web Design Tips
Oct 7th
“Make sure your promotion codes require customers to buy at least two or more items. Then display your cross-sell offerings on the promotions code page. This gives customers incentive to increase their ecommerce purchase amount, and helps them find additional products on the website with which to do so.”
Meredith Keller Owner Smaller Box
Latest Ecommerce Web Design
Nov 2nd
This is one of our Ecommerce Web Design. We are very excited about this project which mixes website design, website development and Ecommerce Web Design into one. Will let you know when it is live..
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